Dust & Grooves Vol. 2 book will delve further into global record collecting culture
Vinyl lovers photographed for this edition include Four Tet, Floating Points, Questlove, A-Trak, DJ Spinna, Quantic, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, and John Peel's family.
10 years on from its influential first edition, Dust & Grooves Volume 2: Further Adventures In Record Collecting is set to arrive on November 8, delving further into the global culture of vinyl record collecting.
With over 150 collectors from across the globe photographed, the book provides rare insight into the record rooms and vinyl habits of some of the world's best-known DJ, as well as everyday people who buy records as a hobby.
Those captured by Eilon Paz for this edition include Four Tet, Floating Points, Questlove, A-Trak, DJ Spinna, Nabihah Iqbal, Quantic, DāM-FunK, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, John Peel's family and more.
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The highly anticipated photobook also contains a foreword by seminal hip hop producer Prince Paul who worked with De La Soul, and 325 pages of “extensive interviews exploring the rich and diverse experiences that define the vinyl community today,” according to an Instagram post.
“I was around four-years-old when I first saw what a vinyl record was,” recounts Paul in his essay. “I remember my parents bought me my first ones. I just loved watching the labels spin around. As a kid, that’s what I dialled in on. I remember seeing Stax and Polydor spin and spin."
Many of the stories are highly personal, tracking a life-long love affair with wax.
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The family of John Peel, a seminal British DJ and the longest-running radio presenter on the BBC, offer an intimate tour of the late disk jockey's expansive collection, which includes exclusive test pressings, niche obscurities and notes from the likes of David Bowie, Marc Bolan and John Lennon.
“It's a life's work,” says Peel’s son Tom Ravenscroft, also a DJ and BBC radio presenter. “Those records came in the door, and then it set off a whole world for so many people. It's not just the history of him [John Peel] and his career.
"It’s the history of so much of the UK music scene and so many people that we love and know as musicians and take for granted. That exact copy, in that collection, is the reason why so many of us know these people.”
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In another interview, Questlove reveals that his best records are kept in his bathroom. “There's also a turntable in there," he says.
Elsewhere filmmaker Don Letts describes how much of his music was passed down from his parents who came to the UK as part of the Windrush generation, “bringing their hopes, their dreams and their precious record collections."
Five years in the making, the second volume of Dust & Grooves follows in the footsteps of the best-selling 2014 edition, stepping further into the minds, shelves and motives of vinyl lovers living everywhere from Tokyo to São Paulo.
The photobook comes amid a global resurgence of vinyl collecting, with sales in the UK hitting their highest level since 1990 last year.
Pre-order the book here.
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